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New thesis questions the explanations to gender wage gap
[19 Apr 2010] The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. Charlotta Magnusson, at Stockholm University, examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern.
Passionate resistance against heteronormativity
[19 Apr 2010] The activists studied in Cathrin Wasshede¿s doctoral thesis promote politics that move boundaries and give rise to new opportunities. At the same time, new power structures are formed in areas that were intended to be free of such mechanisms.
Lebanese database for female experts
[31 Mar 2010] Recently the new online database "Who is she in Lebanon?" was established. The database displays female experts in a range of areas and is administrated by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab world, IWSAW, at the Lebanese American University. Maysa Hajj Ballan is web editor of the database.
Archaeology beyond the great hunter
[17 Mar 2010] Tove Hjørungdal, new Professor of Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg, uses the gender perspective in her research.
Call for European Conference in Sweden
[17 Feb 2010] First announcement for the European conference EQUALITY, GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY ¿ DO THEY MIX? 25-26 November 2010, Linköping University, Sweden